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Let's Bundle Bloated Big Social
From The Eponymous Pickle

Let's Bundle Bloated Big Social

Makes much sense.   Was just thinking about this effect.    Good discussion to start.  While I use Facebook primarily for family and friend communications, many...

Sponsored Content
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sponsored Content

In AdAge: How news organizations will work with sponsored content.  Sponsored content has existed for a long time.  But now it become less clear who is sponsoring...

Big Companies Supporting Startups
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Companies Supporting Startups

For years I worked with startups as part of our innovation centers.   They frequently asked us for the potential of funding, support or endorsement of their ideas...

DunHumby Maps Price Sensitivity
From The Eponymous Pickle

DunHumby Maps Price Sensitivity

In Research:  " ...According to new research from Dunnhumby, a consumer’s sensitivity to price greatly influences their response to advertising tactics and the...

How iPads are Transforming Retail
From The Eponymous Pickle

How iPads are Transforming Retail

In TheNextWeb:  Nothing very revolutionary here.  The examples work for all tablets. Still a good reminder of the basics of what can be done.  I don't see enough...

Printing Food
From The Eponymous Pickle

Printing Food

In the NYT:   At very least the form of the food, or perhaps also adding the intermixing of flavors as well.  Another example of the rush to 3D printing.  Still...

Enterprise and Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enterprise and Big Data

In Readwrite:  Well thought out piece. Have seen this same behavior in many hype cycles.  Large enterprises, who can afford it, accept the use of technologies like...

Digital Marketing is Dead: Says P&G Branding Boss
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Marketing is Dead: Says P&G Branding Boss

Not exactly what was said, but rather that digital has just become part of the accepted mix of techniques and our creativity should focus on brand building rather...

Reviving Artificial Intelligence at MIT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reviving Artificial Intelligence at MIT

More on MIT's new center.   Is AI and its application to business back?" ... A new interdisciplinary research center at MIT, funded by the National Science Foundation...

Turning Numbers into Knowledge
From The Eponymous Pickle

Turning Numbers into Knowledge

Long time collaborator and colleague Jeff Camm at the University of Cincinnati is featured in this recent Lindner College of Business article.  I have been on the...

Advances in 3D Printing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advances in 3D Printing

In Techdirt:  A good overview of printing and scanning advances to support remote manufacture. Links to a number of vendors and projects underway of interest.

Social Analytics Delivered
From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Analytics Delivered

Gib Bassett passes along an article on a purveyor of social media analytics: Infinite Analytics. " ... a cloud-based big data startup that uses the social graph...

Big Data Strategy and Hype
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Strategy and Hype

Forrester on Big Data Strategy.  A useful cautionary view on the floods of hype.  " ...  Don't Have A Big Data Strategy Yet? Good. ... Big data noise has reached...

Saving Barnes & Noble
From The Eponymous Pickle

Saving Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble continues a spiral downwards, apparently unable to link its Nooks and coffee shops to a profitable experience.  Books as experience goods and the...

Measurement as a Path to Success
From The Eponymous Pickle

Measurement as a Path to Success

A favorite topic of mine.  Improving measurement can lead to better results, even if you don't apply advanced analytics to the measurements.  Because measurement...

Innovation and Science Fiction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation and Science Fiction

In the Atlantic:  Inventors need to read more science fiction... "  ... MIT researchers Dan Novy and Sophia Brueckner argue that the mind-bending worlds of authors...

Information Dashboard Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Information Dashboard Design

Newly arrived to support a project:  Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring  by Stephen Few. I will review in the future.  Their...

Business Technology Strategy Template
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Technology Strategy Template

Well thought out template for business technology strategy from Forrester Blogs.  " .... What is it that almost every organization believes it needs, many organizations...

ARD2 Augmented Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

ARD2 Augmented Reality

Recently brought to my attention this augmented reality delivery company: AR23D  For advertising, sales and entertainment implementations.  With development offices...

National Identity By Smartphone
From The Eponymous Pickle

National Identity By Smartphone

The curious observation that national identity varies by phone type.  And the Asymco article and supporting data and visualizations.
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